Don't let history repeat itself
Mar 28, 2016 09:32:27 #
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Heed the warning! Do not let history repeat itself!
Jefferson was a great American president, I just didn't know how great!!!!
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village.
It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli".
This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading.
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic. Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France.
However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war. In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments.
Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace.
A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise." Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.
The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything.
Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.
Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense,but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships. Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.
A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him.
His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States. This should concern every American. That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on..
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists' agenda.
Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!
If you have any doubts about the above information, Google "Thomas Jefferson vs. the Muslim World." Verified by Truth or Fiction Jefferson vs. Muslim Pirates
Comment:
Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?
Heed the warning! Do not let history repeat itself!
Jefferson was a great American president, I just didn't know how great!!!!
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village.
It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli".
This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading.
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic. Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France.
However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war. In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments.
Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace.
A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise." Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.
The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything.
Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.
Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense,but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships. Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.
A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him.
His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States. This should concern every American. That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on..
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists' agenda.
Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!
If you have any doubts about the above information, Google "Thomas Jefferson vs. the Muslim World." Verified by Truth or Fiction Jefferson vs. Muslim Pirates
Comment:
Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?
Mar 28, 2016 10:17:14 #
My favorite guy. Very together. Had not previously seen all of this history. Thanks for stepping up and sharing. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Mar 28, 2016 10:26:33 #
Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?
Our forefathers didn't see it either until their noses were shoved into it and it also started to hurt their pocket books.
Our current administrators are just plain stupid. They have run the greatest nation into receivership and don't have a clue what to do other than line their own pockets.
Our Numero Uno is a heavy mooslim sympathizer and will sell us all down the drain. The libs are to dumb to see it.
We are very very lucky to have a very very smart guy like Trump who loves this country more than money and is capable to get us back on track.
Ironically the 2nd front runner has shown that his motives are unclean.
The totally moronic leftist-socialist demorats have the most corrupt person running while she has repeatedly shown her incompetence. go figure.
Penny MG wrote:
Sent to me in an email. br br br Heed the warnin... (show quote)
Mar 28, 2016 10:29:37 #
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Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?[/quote]
I suspect our forefathers were provided a special "gift", or at least inspiration from the Allmighty. Now, over 200 years later, we're must continue on with mere men for leaders, and the wisdom left by our founders. Pray for our nations, our time, our civilization, and our victory.
Thank you for the well written, well thought-out, and hopefully, well heeded advise.
Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?[/quote]
I suspect our forefathers were provided a special "gift", or at least inspiration from the Allmighty. Now, over 200 years later, we're must continue on with mere men for leaders, and the wisdom left by our founders. Pray for our nations, our time, our civilization, and our victory.
Thank you for the well written, well thought-out, and hopefully, well heeded advise.
Mar 28, 2016 11:01:23 #
Very informative. Thank you for your reminder that the United States of America is a country built on tolerance of all races, creeds and religions. We have tolerated all but we have protected our own. It is my opinion that we should continue with that policy. We stopped Hitler's genocide at great cost to our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. That burden was not limited not borne by service men and women alone. It was carried by the entire country. Perhaps it is time to stop the modern genocide.
I for one do not understand why the Marine Hymn's line "we will fight for right and freedom" seems to have changed to "we will fight for political correctness."
I for one do not understand why the Marine Hymn's line "we will fight for right and freedom" seems to have changed to "we will fight for political correctness."
Mar 28, 2016 23:09:56 #
This is a story worth repeating. Thank you Penny for posting it. I like to repost it on other media but need a link to the original. Space restriction.
Has anyone located the source yet?
Has anyone located the source yet?
Mar 28, 2016 23:33:13 #
Wrangler wrote:
Very informative. Thank you for your reminder that... (show quote)
We as Americans are tolerant of all races, creeds and religions, as long as they come here legally and assimilate as Americans as the law demands.
The current regime has allowed illegals to infiltrate and set up mini countries that don't want anything to do with us except our money, which is given to them freely with no questions asked.
Mar 28, 2016 23:44:35 #
That is a great article but it has one fairly obvious historical error. Jefferson, one my heroes, did not "form" the Marines. They were formed in 1775, prior to the actual founding of our country. Jefferson didn't take office until 1801, a full 26 years later. Regardless, he saw the threat and eliminated it, exactly what we should do today.
Mar 28, 2016 23:45:56 #
BigBear wrote:
We as Americans are tolerant of all races, creeds and religions, as long as they come here legally and assimilate as Americans as the law demands.
The current regime has allowed illegals to infiltrate and set up mini countries that don't want anything to do with us except our money, which is given to them freely with no questions asked.
The current regime has allowed illegals to infiltrate and set up mini countries that don't want anything to do with us except our money, which is given to them freely with no questions asked.
This is what happens when you let a dedicated America hater to hold the highest office in the land.
Mar 29, 2016 00:32:12 #
gmcase wrote:
This is what happens when you let a dedicated America hater to hold the highest office in the land.
I didn't let him. He's an occupying squatter of the WH as well as a traitorous POP.
Mar 29, 2016 00:43:06 #
moabarch
Loc: Moab, UT
Jackinthebox wrote:
b br Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, b... (show quote)
OK, OK.....now that I've finally stopped laughing my guts out.....please please please tell me your comment "lucky to have a very very SMART (???????) guy like Drumpf, er, Trump who loves this country more than money ( ha! a joke within a joke) is a joke! If you really think Drumpf, er...Trump is smart, then you need to replay the things he has said and understand what he has NOT said (like avoiding serious discussion of international affairs). The man may be smart when it comes to taking advantage of every loophole in every law to become rich, but run the country? If you think that, well, you're really not thinking at all.
Mar 29, 2016 01:42:45 #
BigBear wrote:
I didn't let him. He's an occupying squatter of the WH as well as a traitorous POP.
I meant "you" in the sense of the collective idiocy of the country that is so gullible and mentally corrupt they would "let" a criminal squatter rise to that position.
Mar 29, 2016 02:03:30 #
Don't argue with a fool. He will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Libtards, please do not respond to my posts. Start your own and show your incompetence.
The goal of socialism is communism. - Vladimir Lenin
The goal of Islam is to kill you.
understand Barfhead?
moabarch wrote:
OK, OK.....now that I've finally stopped laughing ... (show quote)
Mar 29, 2016 07:16:23 #
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Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?
Our current admis IS the threat. 'Bama is a muslim. another part of the fraud called peace loving muslims..
Why is it our forefathers saw the threat, but our current administrations cannot?
Our current admis IS the threat. 'Bama is a muslim. another part of the fraud called peace loving muslims..
Mar 29, 2016 07:23:39 #
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